Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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2 stories I hope I get to tell.

It is now Sunday; Late Eclipses [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy] officially comes out in two days. This is terrifying and amazing. This is my fifth book. I mean, seriously, people, what the hell? Did I hit my head? Is this a really weird dream? How have I published five books?!

In honor of really weird dreams, I give you two stories I very much hope I get to tell.

1. I occasionally mention a book called Nativity of Chance. It's what I call my "Tim Powers book," because it's not the sort of book I usually write. It's about alchemy, and math, and language, and second chances, and siblings, and the families we find as opposed to the families we're given. It's about a girl named Dodger who loves numbers like she loves nothing else, and a boy named Roger who loves words like he loves nothing else, and the way they love each other. It's about Oz. It's about finding a place in a universe that loves you like a broken heart loves a last goodbye. I want to write it so bad, and I have to write at least five more books, first, because I'm just not good enough yet. But I can finally see good enough on a clear day, and that's very, very new.

2. The tenth InCryptid book is called Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld. It's the story of Alice Price-Healy and Thomas Price and why true love is bad for you, and all the books before it are necessary, in part, to put the pieces in position for this last big story. I desperately want the series to do well enough to let me get this far, to let me show you what it looks like in the forests of my heart. I am good enough to tell this story. I just have to show my math if I want you to love it the way that I do.
Tags: incryptid, late eclipses, math is awesome, nativity of chance, writing
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I look forward to Nativity of Chance when it births/calves.
Me, too.
Daaaaaaang. I want to read these.

I don't think you're having a weird dream! But if you are, please keep dreaming it. I never get dream-books that are so coherent. (Best I've ever managed is a blurb that I wish to all stars I were good enough to write the book for. *sigh* It would be hysterical.)
I'll work on it.
Hi, hon...if you're tracking, Late Eclipses is on the shelves in Pittsburgh, PA, and I just got mine!
Cool.
Would you define how you're using the term "true love"? When I think of true love I think of the love I have for my family and my closest friends. I call this true love because it is love that has lasted for decades rather than the temporary state of being "in love" that I've felt for exes.
In this case, I mean eros specifically (I wish we still recognized the three "kinds" of love as distinct and equally valid emotions). Alice and Thomas have the sort of end-the-world, nothing-else-matters true love that stories tell us all to aspire to.

Stories suck.

theironchocho

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

I'm definitely looking forward to growing old with your works...long may they be issued!
Yay!

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It's a little scary over here, too.
Can't wait to read them, one day :)
Yay. :)
Good God, I am looking forward to that first one.
Me, too, quite honestly.

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I hope so, too.
Can I just say that on one hand I'm loving these countdowns and learning more about you/your books and I am so excited there's another Toby book coming out but on the other hand, it's killing me softly because I can't buy this one opening week [which is a first since I discovered Rosemary and Rue] and my secondary plan of going to my library and getting it has crashed since they don't have it on order, I'm four hours away from my home library and there has been a change in librarians anyway so I've gone from all of the librarians knowing me by name and being willing to either do a interlibrary loan or actually order the books I want for me as soon as possible to them just putting it down as a suggestion.

*deep breath*

I just had to share that with someone other than my sister, lol.

And i find the fact that you think you need to write five more books before you're good enough to write Nativity of Chance fascinating. Have you tried and that's how you know you're not at that level yet or is it just the whole idea is so large that you don't want to touch it and mess it up before you're ready?

The idea requires a certain delicacy of handling in terms of the timeline. I need to get more practice before I'm good enough to go there.
I just got an e-mail this evening while I was at class saying my copy of Late Eclipses has shipped. Now I need to hurry up and finish Let Me In.
Yay!
Seanan, if I have anything to do with it, via my wallet and buying your books, you will get to write both of these books. I'd really love to read them.
Awesome. :)
Aaaaaaw!

gwyd

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

I look forwards to having to re-arrange my shelves to make more room in the Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire section.
I eagerly await that day.
Just got my shipping notice for Late Eclipses! Yay! Keeping it company on the journey to my home are The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett and Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop.
...I love your icon like burning.

espressosnail

6 years ago

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

I've been wondering if we'd ever get Alice and Thomas in one of the InCryptid books...want! :-)
You'll get Alice all the way through. Thomas...that's for laters.
While the road to Oz is long and a deadly desert is part of it, I have all faith that you won't take the silver slippers route. You'll want to play with all the poisonous things in the deadly desert first.

This is part of why I adore you.
Oz scorpions are AWESOME.

ladymondegreen

6 years ago

"How have I published five books?!"

Very well, in my opinion.
Awww.

Thanks. :)
I get sad when I have authors who seem to peeter out of ideas. I get full of glee when I realize that you are brimful of stories and worlds, and I'm going to get to read you for years and years!
I'll stop writing when I'm dead.

Maybe.
*noms on #1* I have one like that in the back of my head. Stories about people who think in different languages and fall in love are some of my very favorites. Possibly because my best relationships are with people who are number-lovers who like to talk with me and I am a words-and-pictures kind of girl with a number-y brain.

Iiiii look forward to it. *nomnomnom* Along with all the books in between.
Oh, they don't fall in love, since they're brother and sister, but they blow a lot of stuff up together. :)
I haven't read Incryptid 1 yet, and I'm already willing to buy truckloads of books to make sure I can read 10.
Awesome. :)